Homeless Veterans Get Holiday Help

Aaron Glantz, OneWorld US Aaron Glantz, oneworld Us - Wed Dec 17, 10:49 am
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 17 (OneWorld) - The line of veterans seeking free food
and clothing reached all the way around the corner, more than 200 strong.
Some wore their old military IDs around their neck, others carried red,
white, and blue identification cards from the Department of Veterans
Affairs.

Some had lived homeless on the streets for years. Others were seeking help
for the first time in decades, after being laid off during the United
States' increasingly deep recession.

Each waited for a chance to enter the Ark of Refuge mission South of Market
in San Francisco, where the veterans services organization Swords to
Plowshares was giving out care packages that included a backpack stocked
with a hat, rain poncho, windbreaker, flashlight, socks, underwear, ski
gloves, towels, and toiletries.

"I'm hungry and options are limited this year," said an Air Force veteran
named Mark, who asked that his last name be withheld to keep the shame of
poverty away from his famly.

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While the anonymous bigot known as "jazzerciser" engages in his lunatic
antisemitic ravings, here's what's really going on:

Palestinian rocket misfires, kills 2 girls in Gaza
By IBRAHIM BARZAK - 1 hour ago

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants
fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the
northern Gaza Strip and killing two schoolgirls.

The attack came as Israel sent mixed signals over its plans to respond to
continuing Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli defense officials say
politicians have approved a large-scale incursion into the territory once
rainy conditions clear. But at the same time, Israel appeared receptive to
international pressure against an invasion, opening the Gaza border Friday
to allow in deliveries of humanitarian aid.

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Bernanke & Madoff, Keynesian to the core--

Masters of the ripoff, but never known to bore.

[Admittedly, a bit of doggerel; yet more apt for this Christmas season than
a Partridge in a Pear Tree. The point is not that the Fed is running a
Ponzi scheme, but rather that Bernanke & Madoff employ the same fantasy
economics. Wealth is not created by simply increasing the circulation of
fiat money.]

As Merry a Christmas as possible, in this day of fantasy economics & "Let's
pretend" Sociology.

William Flax http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/current.htm
[Conservative Intelligence Center]

You are, of course right. See below:
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in

White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire
By JO BECKER, SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and STEPHEN LABATON
"We can put light where there's darkness, and hope where there's despondency
in this country. And part of it is working together as a nation to encourage
folks to own their own home." - President Bush, Oct. 15, 2002

WASHINGTON - The global financial system was teetering on the edge of
collapse when President Bush and his economics team huddled in the Roosevelt
Room of the White House for a briefing that, in the words of one
participant, "scared the hell out of everybody."

It was Sept. 18. Lehman Brothers had just gone belly-up, overwhelmed by
toxic mortgages. Bank of America had swallowed Merrill Lynch in a hastily
arranged sale. Two days earlier, Mr. Bush had agreed to pump $85 billion
into the failing insurance giant American International Group.

The president listened as Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve,
laid out the latest terrifying news: The credit markets, gripped by panic,
had frozen overnight, and banks were refusing to lend money.

Then his Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., told him that to stave
off disaster, he would have to sign off on the biggest government bailout in
history.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/12/26/.../

Christmas for troops in Afghanistan: turkey patties, grape juice and calls home

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/58486.html?mi_email=McClatchy%%20Washington%%20Bureau_DC...

Marines are used to being away from home on Christmas. About 40 percent of those
in the remote Delaram base have been to Iraq or Afghanistan before or have
missed the holiday due to training. These Marines are stationed in Farah
province, an area where Taliban forces not only fight but also sell opium poppy
to finance their operations.

George Bush, Protectionist
by Patrick J. Buchanan

12/26/2008
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30077
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,"
President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the
Big Three "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."

Thus did Bush concede that protectionism, if a critical U.S. industry is in
peril, must trump free-trade ideology. For in offering the bailout to GM,
Ford and Chrysler, Bush, by omission, excluded BMW, Mercedes, Honda, Toyota,
Nissan and Hyundai -- though all operate auto plants here in the United
States and all are feeling the same sales slump.

Indeed, Toyota claims losses for the first time in 70 years -- though how
Toyota's management was able to keep sales up in 1945, when Gen. Curtis
LeMay's B-29s were conducting their nightly visits, escapes me.

Bush may believe he has sinned against free-market principles, but he is
following the path of his great free-market predecessor. Ronald Reagan, too,
was not prepared to see Japan take down the U.S. auto industry, or steel
industry, or computer chip industry, or Harley-Davidson.

EEC = European Economic Community
UoF = Europe of the Fatherlands (my abbreviation)

Economical cooperation of independent friendly neighbouring nations - no
nightmare-like, democratically not legitimized superstate heading for
totalitarian soviet conditions.